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Piazzetta was born in Venice, the son of a sculptor Giacomo Piazzetta, from whom he had early training in wood carving. Starting in 1697 he studied with the painter Antonio Molinari . By Piazzetta's account, he studied under Giuseppe Maria Crespi while living in Bologna in 1703–05, although there is no record by Crespi of formal tutelage.
PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista (b. 1683, Venezia, d. 1754, Venezia) The Death of Darius c. 1746 Oil on canvas, 240 x 480 cm Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Location of Davis County in Utah. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davis County, Utah. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Davis County, Utah, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National ...
The leading lights of the 18th century came from Venice. Among them were the brilliant exponent of the rococo style, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; the architectural painters Francesco Guardi, Canaletto, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Bernardo Bellotto; and the engraver of Roman antiquities, Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Rafael Nadal competes in the final tournament of his illustrious career as Spain hosts the Davis Cup finals in Malaga.. The 22-time grand slam champion will wave goodbye to tennis in front of his ...
Francesco Polazzo (1683–1753) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Venice.He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and painted portraits and historical subjects, though better known as a restorer of pictures.